Divers and Drivers

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The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty

You're sitting here with us, but you're also out walking in a field at dawn.

You are yourself the animal we hunt when you come with us on the hunt.

You're in your body like a plant is solid in the ground, yet you're wind.

You're the diver's clothes lying empty on the beach. You're the fish.

In the ocean are many bright strands and many dark strands like

veins that are seen when a wing is lifted up.

Your hidden self is blood in those,

those veins that are lute strings

that make ocean music, not

the sad edge of surf,

but the sound

of no shore.

~ Rumi, Coleman Barks

 

No Driver Criers

The situation’s

well-situated in I

if I believe the sad sound

of the Oceanic Samba really is

more than the imginary bloodbath

striking red-hot upon strings of memory,

lingering over fire like violins verifying verily

the validity of vasanic infernos informing the I that

the I is just a myth of enormous proportions promulgating

enhanced illusions of suffering, birthing, dying, slaughtering,

selling your mother down the river, rivering along in deliberation

of an ever-looming liberation that is just a breathless moment away,

lost in contemplation believing that the end has come and all is known.

I groan inwardly when I realize I know absolutely nothing worth repeating.

One morning I heard Coleman reciting Rumi when it was just the first

Bright glimmer of light, the grey and silver emanations striking off the

moon’s luminescence still present, intriguing the darkness to stay

and linger to greet its paramour, the dawning light of a new day.

Filtering through my brain the strains of Rumi went this way:

"One morning I went to a place beyond dawn, a source

of sweetness that always flows and is never less… I

placed one foot on the wide plain of death, and

some grand immensity sounded on the

emptiness. I have felt nothing ever

like the wild wonder of that

moment…Love is…

Lightening, and

Also the ahhh

We respond

With…"

 

LoveAlways,

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